Taoism

Seven Teachers Taoístas. - Version of Eva Wong. Neo Person. 2000.

There is still a high percentage you present yourself, in the western societies, that it mixes everything what turns out to be different to him in other cultures, in this contemptuous drawer of tailor, of the "alternative, "parallel or "oriental thing". Terms that far from wanting to name what his own ones felt express, they try to show something with a low category to either bendecido for the victorious western civilization.

It is curious that, the studies on the ancient religions of China, sometimes are included in these categories, with which value seems to be reduced to works that it have in abundance, while he lacks on the other hand, an a little more serious attention on the part of the official academic institutions.

The book that occupies us today is not a philosophy agreement, but a novel. Written by an author nowadays not known towards half of the dynasty Ming (aprox. year 1500) narrates of a simple, lively and entertaining form, the way to the lighting of the teacher Wang Zhongyang and his seven disciples.

In China a big stories tradition exists. Stories that treat especially the imaginable topics, without excluding, of course, the Taoism. Possibly the work that occupies us has been forming in the popular speech, like stories that describe the wonderful histories of these men who, according to the tradition, obtained the lighting.

If this way it has been his history, it is necessary to say that his transformation in novel it has been with big success, since there has merit the beauty with which he manages to narrate of an agile and entertaining form, the fortunes that the proper teacher and each of his disciples must spend before coming to the lighting, showing thus, to a not initiated public, the essentials of the doctrines taoístas.

Although the first reading of this book can turn out to be so rapid as that of a novel of adventures, in which the protagonists far from fighting against unexpected dangers, do it against their own weaknesses, is suitable a slower reading, or a rereading, since only thus, amusing itself in the most complex passages, the reader will manage to extract the whole juice of this so interesting work.

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